It’s been a long while since we’ve had a legitimately good Batman videogame. The most recent one I could think of was The Adventures of Batman & Robin back on the Genesis and SNES, and that game came out fifteen years ago.
As for The Dark Knight, a tie-in videogame was unofficially (and apparently, inadvertently) revealed by Gary Oldman (aka Commissioner Gordon) in an interview with G4 last July, shortly after the film’s release. EA later confirmed that Pandemic Studios had indeed been working on such a game, but it looks like that was shelved — perhaps because the awful Batman Begins game only sold 587,000 copies.
So it is with immense glee that I present to you one YouTuber’s idea of what a Dark Knight videogame could have looked like — on the NES. The user absolutely nailed the “cutscenes” that slowly moved across the screen back in those days; there’s some suitably 8-bit menu music; and the game was “developed” by Sunsoft, which is appropriate — after all, they were the people behind the NES Batman and Batman: Return of the Joker games (as well as the vaunted Blaster Master series, of course).
Am I the only one looking for a “Start” key to push on my keyboard?
